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Hiring a Bot Developer? These Top Interview Questions Can Help!
December 18, 2018
Want to make sure your bot developer really knows their stuff? We’ve put together a list of interview questions to help you hire the right bot developer.
Bot Basics, Bots for Business
Multilingual Chatbots: Teaching Your Bot New Languages
December 11, 2018
Chatbots that can communicate in multiple languages can help you reach more users. Before you get started, read up on these linguistic and cultural challenges.
Bot Development
Why Good Writing is Central to Conversational AI
December 6, 2018
What role does good writing play in the day-to-day business of bot building? And what is “good writing” anyway? In this article, we explore some of the ways good writing plays a crucial role in your conversational AI strategy.
Bot Development
Speech Recognition: Teaching Your Bot to Speak
December 4, 2018
Voice chatbots can recognize human speech and are a preferred way for consumers to interact with brands. Learn the basics of building a voice chatbot.
Bot Development
Shopping Cart Abandonment? Chatbots to the Rescue!
November 27, 2018
More and more companies are using chatbots to solve e-commerce problems. Explore some common shopping cart abandonment problems, and see how bots can help.
Bots for Business
How to Design a Chatbot’s Personality
November 20, 2018
Follow our practical guide for designing a chatbot’s personality, and create a bot with a fully developed personality that your users will enjoy and trust.
Bot Basics, Bot Development
Building Your Bot: Coding from Scratch vs. Using a Bot Builder
November 13, 2018
There are two main ways to create a bot—hand coding from scratch or using a bot builder. Explore the pros and cons of these two options.
Bot Development, Frameworks and Tools
Listening to Your Bot: Chatbot Metrics and Analytics
November 6, 2018
Chatbots are powerful tools for improving your customers’ experience. So which are the best chatbot metrics for success, and what can you learn from your bot?
Bots for Business
4 Ways Chatbots Help Reduce Carbon Footprint of Your Business
October 30, 2018
Chatbots can do a lot to benefit your business. Explore four use cases for chatbots that can reduce energy consumption and help save you money.
Bots for Business
Get a .BOT Domain Faster with Pandorabots
October 23, 2018
Learn how new and existing Pandorabot users can get a .BOT domain.
Bot Development
How Chatbots Use Conversational Marketing
October 16, 2018
Chatbots are learning from billions of customer interactions to help companies and brands develop conversational marketing strategies.
Bots for Business, Conversational Marketing
Natural Language Processing: Common Challenges
October 9, 2018
Three common challenges with NLP are natural language understanding, information extraction, and natural language generation. Learn more about NLP for chatbots.
Bot Basics, Bot Development
Web Scraping with Bots: The Good and Bad
October 2, 2018
Web scraping uses bots to collect large amounts of data from websites. Web-scraping bots began as helpful tools, but they have also been misused in some ways.
Bots for Business, Chatbots
Human or Bot? Can You Tell the Difference?
September 25, 2018
Humans “talk” to bots online all the time, and AI can make it difficult to discern whether you’re dealing with a bot or a person. Can you tell the difference?
Chatbot News, Chatbots
How to Choose a Framework for Your Next Bot Build
September 11, 2018
It takes a lot of planning to create a bot. Before you even get started coding, check our list of things to consider when you choose a bot framework.
Bot Development, Frameworks and Tools
Bots Against Slavery
September 4, 2018
See how Seattle Against Slavery is fighting sex trafficking with chatbots that pose as sex trafficking victims and that interact directly with the buyers.
Emerging Technology
12 Bots to Integrate in Slack Today
August 28, 2018
Slack is one of the top platforms for bot integration to share everything from tasks to gifs with colleagues. Read about 12 Slackbots you can add today.
Bot Galleries
8 Lessons We Learned from the World’s Most Famous Bots
August 21, 2018
New bots are built on the success of famous bots ELIZA from 1966 and A.L.I.C.E. from 1995. Keep these 8 tips in mind to improve your bot development approach.
Emerging Technology
Feeling Lonely? These Chatbots Will Keep You Company
August 14, 2018
Humans are creating chatbots to keep other humans company. Read more about how people are connecting with bots and the 6 best chatbots to talk with based on your mood.
Bot Galleries
Designing Personality: How Bots Express Themselves Through Language
August 7, 2018
Developers and companies are building bots to sound more like humans, Using these personality design components can improve user experience with your chatbots.
Chatbot News
Define and Design Intents for Your Bot
July 31, 2018
Intents are user intentions and they are how users greet your bot and ask it questions. Learn more about intents and how to design them for your bot.
Bot Basics
Design Utterances for Your Bot
July 24, 2018
An utterance is a single portion of your bot’s overall dialog. Learn how to design your bot’s utterances to determine your bot’s tone and personality.
Bot Basics
Serverless Computing Simplifies Chatbot Maintenance
July 10, 2018
Serverless computing is a great solution for hosting your chatbot. See the history of serverless and why your bot should be hosted there.
Emerging Technology
8 Steps to a Better Chatbot
June 26, 2018
If building a chatbot seems like a daunting task, start with this simple 8-step checklist for building a bot. It’s not as complicated as you might think.
Bot Development
How Business Leaders Leverage Chatbot Personalization
June 21, 2018
See how major brands are outsourcing customer service work to chatbots while creating a more personalized online experience for their users.
Enterprise Bots
How to get a .BOT domain
June 19, 2018
This step-by-step guide by Randall Hunt was previously published on the AWS News Blog. You’ll learn how to register a .BOT domain, validate a LEX bot to give Amazon Registry permissions to invoke the bot and verify it’s existence, and get started with Amazon Route53 and AWS Certificate Manager (ACM).
Frameworks and Tools
How to reserve a .BOT domain using Pandorabots
June 12, 2018
In this step-by-step guide you’ll learn how to create your first bot using a Pandorabots account, deploy your bot, and reserve a .BOT domain for your site.
Frameworks and Tools
How Apps are Pushing Bots into the Mainstream
June 5, 2018
Conversational marketing and messaging apps are pushing bots into the everyday. Learn about some of the benefits of integrating chatbots in messaging apps.
Chatbot News
When It Comes to Solving Problems for Your Company, Task Bots Can Help
June 3, 2018
From IT support to admin tasks, task bots are reshaping the way that offices operate. Learn more about the task bots that are making your office life better.
Emerging Technology
What Chatbot Communities to Join in 2018
May 29, 2018
Do you know where to find other bot developers to talk shop and share your knowledge? If not, we’ve put together a list of our 6 our favorite communities where bot developers and bot enthusiasts alike can share bots, discover new bots, learn how to use new tools, compare frameworks, and keep up with discoveries.
Chatbot News
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